THE CRISIS OF THE WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 August 1918, Page 3

THE CRISIS OF THE WAR.

The statement hy Sir Douglas Haig in his order to the British army that the “period of crisis” has passed recalls Mr. Bonar Law’s estimate of the time-limit imposed on the enemy. “The result of coming battles must always be uncertain,” he said on June 18, \ “but those who are responsible, those best competent to judge, look forward to the future without alarm. The next few months will form the supreme hour in this fight. The Germans have deliberately bent every, thing on winning a decisive result now before the forces of America can be brought into play. If, three months hence, none of the strategic objects have been secured by the enemy, then their campaign will have failed, and in spite of the victories they have achieved up to now it will be the most disastrous of all the campaigns in which they have' been engaged. The future of our country and of the world depends on the next few weeks. tt depends in the first place on our soldiers and those of our allies. They will not fail us. It depends also to some extent on the lines of communication—on those of us who remain at home.”